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When Dick Ainsworth's back collar
biud slipped from his lingers and dis-
appeared behind a huge and immov-
able mahogany wardrobe, ho was
merely aunuyed; but when he dis-
covered that his setvant had oinitt.d
to put any others into his portman-
teau, he gave vent to his feelings in
true British fashion.
This relieving hint somewhat, he
armed himself with the poker and
made sundry lunges behind the
v;ardrohe, but with no result.
llo swore softly. casting a frantic
glance at his watch. and then pro-
ceeded to search for a bell. Ilut
there was none to be seen.
ile had not the smallest notion in
which direction his host's roost was
situatt'd, and time was flying. '!'here
was. therefore. nothing for it but to
finish his toilet with a fervent pray-
er that his collar would not sudden-
ly fly up and hit tho back of his
head before the evening was over—
a prayer he hardly expected to be
granted.
The gong sounded, and, anathema-
tising his man, collar studs. and tho
world In general, ho descended to
the drawing -room.
There were a few other guests pre-
sent
ro-sent besides the house party. and
'Dick found himself escorting a girl
to the dining -room whom he had
not noticed among the company on
his arrival earlier in the evening.
Ile had a kind of hazy notion that
she was pretty, but his recent trou-
bles were too fresh in his mind for
him to pay tnuch attention to her.
Ile ate up his soup in solemn and
moody silence, while the fish course
and the entrees proceeded in much
the same fashion. They had nearly
reached dessert when the girl spoke:
"I wonder if you aro aware that
you have not addressed a single re-
mark to ane since our introduction?"
Dick started. lie could not turn
his head with ease, for fear of the
consequences, but he glanced at her
out of the corner of his eye.
"If you knew what was on my
mind, you would not be surprised,"
he returned gloomily.
"Tell ate," she responded. "for I
confess that at present your behav-
ior does surprise me."
"'There Is no stud at the back of
my collar," replied Dick in sepulch-
ral tones.
The girl laughed. a
laugh.
•'Oh, you poor roan, I do sympa-
thize. No wonder you are silent and
sad. Couldn't you have got one
lent you'?"
"'!'here was no bell in my room,
anti no time to go on a search."
"When I ant married." said the
girl reflectively. "I will have a tray
of studs in overt'• man's room. Fancy
if we were left without pincushions."
"Will you ask mo to stay with
yo i?" demanded Dick. Ile was for-
getting the collar stud.
"Certainly," she responded; "but
I fear you will have to wait."
Dick wondered whether she was
engaged, and longed to find out.
"When I return the invitation," ho
replied. "you shall have two pin-
cushions in your room."
The girl's thoughts were now in
the sane direction as Dick's hail
been
"Is she dark or fair?" she demand-
ed.
"Fair." responded Dick, with a
glance at the girl and a quick men-
tal resolve.
"I'retly?" asked the girl.
"Lovely," replied Dick with fervor.
"'fell Inc her front name," said
t' •• girl.
Lick laughed. The situation
pleased hits.
"Ynu shall guess," he replied.
"1 cannot," she answered. Her
hands were in her lap, and she was
to ying with m tiny handkerchief.
!tick's eagle eye fell upon it. In
the corner was a small embroidered
•' 1. ..
"NoW, in the naive of all that's
wune'•rful," m*u-ed Dick, "what
earthly name begins with that bit-
ter?"
A sudden inspiration dawned
on hie), and he drew his how
venture.
"tier name," said dick, softly, "is
Yvonne."
"Yvonne," repeated the girl, with
a curious intonation in her vola.
"You like the name?"
"I love 1t," replied 'Dick.
"Ah!" said the gni gently, and
there was a e+ilence
A moment later the hostess gave
the siival and the ladies rose.
On their departure Dick made his
request. known to his host, and was
soon his calor. impertu•abl.' self once
More.
"Say. I'reel," he demanded of the
man next hint, "who was the girl I
took in? 1 didn't catch her sante.''
" .!iss Yvonne 5 )'Ilea." responded
the man addressed. "I'd bet she's
had more proposals than any girl In
the United Kingdom. and has re-
fused them all."
-Then she isn't engaged?" asked
(lick carelessly.
"No, dear fellow. So i1 you've
any feeling that way, go in and —
you won't win."
"Thanks," replied Dick calmly. "If
I go in. 1 shall win."
"Then stay out," was the solemn
rejoinder
it lieu the men ascended to the
draw01g-roue► Dick's eyes wandered
Immediately in search of the girl
f1 • wits not lona in finding her,
and c>d himself on a lounge
heside 11..1- with (01112 self-possession.
"So your need has been supplied,"
laughed the girl.
"Certainly," he resporebts, "iiut
how did you know?„
"You have lost that 1. '...., nir of
diffidence, which 1 ant en•rn.%;nced was
foreign to your nature. e Ate smiled.
soft, music.il
up -
at a
"You wrung lite, Miss O'Hea," he
replied gravely. "1 atm the must
diffident of men."
••1 should hardly have realized it,"
she answered.
-Shyness, reticence, and diffidence,
Miss ei'lit a,': said !)ick. "are dis-
tinctly Masculine virtue.,. No
duubt that accounts for your diffi-
culty in tecogniring them."
"Ito you also count politeness
among the virtues?" she dentandetl.
"Certainly." rosponded Dick airily
though for a moment he Wtts non-
plussed.
•'1)i a masculine typo, I suppose,"
said the girl reflectively, "and that
is the reason I did not recognize
it."
"1 apologize," said Dick. "The
joy of recovering a stud had gone
to 10 ' head."
'1'he girl laughed, and a song from
a well-known soprano cause as a
welcome interruption for the mo-
ment.
On its conclusion Dick spoke.
"I. count on your good wishes for
my wooing." ho said suddenly.
"Oh!" said the girl, surprised. "I
thought. it was settled."
"No," said Dick, gravely; "I
doubt if sho even knows of my at-
tachment."
"Why don't you tell her?" asked
the girt. -
"'There aro many reasons," said
Dick. "One is that she doesn't know
me very well."
"How, then, do you know her?"
"I ant a student of human na-
ture," responded Dick. "Besides. it
was a case of love at first sight."
"Ah!" The girl's voice was re-
flective.
"You don't
Dick.
"A girl is not permitted data by
which to judge."
"I suppose not,'' replied Dick;
but if she were?"
"it might be possible," she said,
unfurling her fan.
"Should you think a girl would bo
angry if she knew?" asked Dick.
"Certainly not," replied the girl.
"After all, it is a compliment."
"Well." said Dick, very gently,
"you are, Yvonne."
• • • • • •
Mrs. Ainsworth has insisted on
having boxes of studs in the rooms
of her male visitors, though Dick
has demurred, as the says he would
like to give all his guests a chance
of winning as charming a wife as
his own
Yvonne, however, thinks It is nec-
essary to involve the loss of a col-
lar stud In order to bring this to
pass, for, as she invariably points
out. all men are not as diffident as
Dick.—Pearson's Weekly. •
—4
"OLD MOORE'S" PROPHECIES.
Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Will
Be Full of Startling Events.
Old Moore has published his pro-
phecies for 190(1, in London Eng-
land. His almanac leads off with
disaster—Death plying his sickle liis-
ti:y by land and sen. Then costo
financial exposures, outrages, tour -
'tiers, and eat Gumlike shocks. But
• for all this, January will not see
so many unemployed in the streets,
and the 'louse of Commons will see
"the Government steadily working."
February is to be distinguished 1y
such strange happenings ns religious
controversies, and ere the nation has
recovered from the novelty March
will come in with a great stir about
hospital management, a tax on bi-
cycles, great tines for white labor
in South Africa, and for ilritons it/
France. But April is to see some-
thing almost comic—a great clear-
ance off the streets of bogus blind
anti letno beggars. In this month,
too. the Crystal Palace will be
burned.
In May the dreamer's soul reaches
a fine height—"one language and a
world's brotherhood." Next he sees
a vision of farm colonies gathering
in tramps. vngt4bonds and wastrels.
Tn July many wealthy people will
(lie. trade will flourish, and Russia
will stake a rush for India. August
is to see a bunk smash. September
is to hear some very free speech in
Hyde !'ark, and October :will be dis-
tinguished by the wholesale killing
of little shops by big stores. Moro
railway accidents and some coal
mine disasters will blacken Novem-
ber. December is to tett nese (laning-
ing tides on the south toast and
a boat of destructive tires, and on
the top of it all Old Moore has the
courage to wish everybody a {(appy
New Year.
believe in it?" asked
GENERAL BOTHA PACIFIC.
South Africa United
British Flag.
Hopes to See
Under
SOME STRANGE FREAKS'A BUGLER AT WATERLOO
MEN WHO ARR- ANGE THEIR
OWN BURIAL.
Strange Instruction- s Carried Out
For Some Eccentric
People.
The directi by a Gern:ar► Baron,
who died a few weeks ago, that. his
body 8111111 be embalmed, placed in a
glass case, and handed down to his
posterity for ever us an heirloom►,
brings to the memory the even more
remarkable disposal Jeremy Benth-
am made of his body, says London
Tit -flits.
The great jurist, on his death sev-
enty-three years ago, left strict
instructions that his body should
bo dissected, and that his skeleton
should then be clothed in ono of
his own suits and placed in a mov-
able glass -house. These strange in-
structions were carried out to a
large extent. Tho skeleton was
duly clothed, but itwas found neces-
sary to substitute a head of wax,
and the figure, seated in a charact-
eristic attitude, was placed in a ma-
hogany cabinet with a glass front,
where the old philosopher may be
seen to -day at University College,
(lower Street, resting on his stick
and beaming on the world with
A SIMPLE BENEVOLENCE.
Almost as remarkable was the dis-
posal of the body of Major Labelli-
ere, who was buried on the top of
Ilox Hill, in a grave 10 feet deep.
Into this grave the body was lower -
KING ORDERED ENQUIRY _NTO
THE MAN'S STORY.
Thought Veterans Were All Dead
—Several Claims Have Been
Refuted.
John Vaughan, %%hu cluiuls to bo
104 years old, uud is slated to have
served as u bugler buy under Wel-
lington at Waterloo, wets recently
picked up at Birkenhead, England, in
an exhausted condition, and he is
now in hospital at Higher 'Tranulere.
It is six weeks since publicity was
first given to tho statement that
Vaughan was tramping the !Welsh $5.20 to $5.30, set•ond patents $1. -
border, selling bootlaces and trifles 90 to $5, bakers' $1.80 to z1.90.
to supplement a pension of a shilling Milifeed—Ontario—t'nchatgod at $12
'LEADING MARKETS
Ill(EA DS'I'U FES.
Toronto Sept. 1t).—Wheat—Onturw
—A apcxiel inquiry for No. 2 white
has etude that quality a little twiner
and sale"; are reported at 744e, ait11
7:se' asked. No. 2 rod and mix.s.1 are
7:i;c to 7.1c, outside; guui-u and
spring aro about 70c.
Wheat—Manitoba—Cash quotations,
lake parts. are t •' c for No. 1 uurth-
ern and '92c for No. 2 northern.
Flour—Ontario—$3 bid for 90 per
cent. patents for export, buyers'
bags, and sotue offering at $3.05.
lllanitubu—Bust putouts quoted at
a clay. The story was set forth with to $1.2.50 per ton for bran in car
much detail. including mention that lots outside; shorts, $111.50 to *18. teach of the y1!t'OlI full into tho clutch -
his regiment was the 17th Lance's according to quality. Manitoba-
-the famous "Death or Glory Boys" Bran, $10 to $17, and shorts, $19 es of the Auu•rican police, and aero
—but it weslstated that he did not convicted of triunes ranging from
possess a Waterloo medal. the eh -
settee of which was accounted for by
the explanation that the veteran had
a conscientious objection to such re-
wards for valor.
Meanwhile the case was brought to
the notice of the King. who ar(Iorod
that an immediate inquiry should be
made. Before his Majesty's com-
mand could be curried out, Vaughan
had mysteriously disappeared. All No. 2 yellow, lake and rail freights.
endeavors to trace him for a time polled Oats—$1.73 fur burrcls in
entirely failed, but tie was finally car lots on track here, and $4.50 for
pickod up at Birkenhead in a weak- bags. 2'5c more fur broken lots hero
ened condition. and 4Oc outside.
It now appears that the old man
has been wandering about the coun-
try u great deal of late, being seen
tBanished to 1
_' Siberia. 1.
I
50114.• tisk' ag.1 seven Russian pris-
oners alto had made their escape
from Siberia were picked up in an
open bout in the middle of the Pa-
cific. They were taken to San Fran-
cisco. and the l'ulifernians, ever
ready ttith sympathy, gave theta
clothes and food. and found theist
employment.
Within a comparatively short time
to $20, at Toronto uud u:juul points.
Oat's—Firm; No 2, 2tlie to 29c, at
outside points. It was proved that one had been
Barley -37c to 43c, according to
quality, at outside points. guilty of almost every crime, with
Rye—First at 51c to 17c outside. the exception of manslaughter. since
Peas—New crop is quoted ut (15c he arrived in San Francisco.
to f,Oc, with (3(6c to 88c for special That a largo number of innocent
quality, outsl e. persons aro banished to Siberia can-
Cont—Canadian nominal. American not bo disputed, and this unfortu-
(I140 for No. 3 yellow and 112c for nate state of affairs owes its ex-
istence to what is known all over
Russia as "administrative process."
"Administrative process" allows of
any person, Juan, woman. or child
who is arrested on suspicion to be
sent into exile on an order from
the Minister of the Interior for a
housebreaking to highway robbery
with violence.
COUNTI(Y I'4tODUCE.
ed head first and feet uppermost, in I3utter—'I`ho markt+t is easy in tune short term or for life to any part
order that thisgallant officer, who towards tho end of Juno at Newcas- of Siberia.
tie where he was selling bootlaces and quoted unchanged. Personsiarrested on suspicion and
was assured that at the last day the and hobbled along with the mid of u Crealrery, prints ....22c 2:ic exiled may re genuinely suspicious
world would be firmed upside clown, stick. Ho is also reported to have do solids 21C 214c
ailed s, or they may be quite (n -
might make sure of alighting right stayed in a common lodging house
Dairy, Ib. rolls, gaud to 1
M-
end up. Another eccentric .she gentle- choice 18c 20c nocent of any intention to break the
man, desirous that his body should at Bury, and to have afterwards left tio medium 17c 18c laws.
by train, informing a railway porter
at least rest in good company, ditio tubs, gaud to chuice17c 18c For instance, during the early
in conversation that he had army
reefed that it should 1)0 interred in do inferior lvc lOc stages of the Russo-JapaneseWar
hi his wallet.
aIsland, Cardigan Bay, Inquiries at the Royal lfospital. Cheese Quotations aro tinchanged,half a dozers young men and threo
whichis credited with being the Iasi Chelsea, show that the Governors at 11Ic to 12c per lb. girls were arrested in Moscow while
earthly resting -place of 200,000 and the staff of executive officers Eggs—Coming forward well and are reading and discussing a political
saints.charged with the relict of the soldier tin hanged at 18c to 19c. work by a Russian writer. With -
A Philadelphian gas -lighter direr(- in old age desire corroboration of
Potatoes --Unchanged at 40c to out any form of trial they were, un -
ed that his head should be utilized 50c per bushel.
der this "administrative process,"
Poultry—Fut hens, 7c to 8c; thin, exiled to the uunes.
0c to 7c; fat chickens, 9c to 10c; On arriving at. 'Tomsk the unfortu-
nate exiles were forced to walk to
Irkutsk. the capital of Eastern Si-
beria.
Tho distance between the two
towns is 1,010 utiles, and the exiles,
whether young or old, are always
expected to travel at the rate of
sixty mi1158 a week.
BUFFALO MARKETS. of
is the destination of many
of Russia's exiles; but the party of
Buffalo, Sept. 19.—Flour—Firm. young people wo are referring to
Wheat—Spring unsettled; No. 1 Nor -,were driven on to the alines of
there, new, 8,11c; Winter, firm; No. Kara, some 700 miles farther east.
2 red, 85c. Corn—Strong; No. 2 ,Tho mines here are gold ones, and
yellow, 580; No 2 corn, 57 jc. Oats are the personal property of the
—Strong; No. 2 white 304c; No. 2 ,Tsar, and the young men of this
mixed, 29c. Marley—Ohio, 43 to 47c party aro now assisting in working
on track. Rye—Stronger; No. 1, 66c ' theni; but what is the tato of their
asked. lady comrades can only be conjec-
tured.
LiVE S'1.00K NIA RKKT. 'The• unfortunate man or woman
who is sent to Yakutsk rarely lives
Toronto. Sept. 19.—Thu run of
cattle at the Western Market to day to return. '!'his place is but. a few
WW1 heavy, but the demand for all
degrees south of the Arctic circlo,
and the only buildings it boasts of
are rude huts, principally roofed
with tnud.
The revolutionary Leo Deutsch,
who served sixteen years in Siberia,
no tells us that he spent several years
30 in the "primeval wilderness" of Yak -
10 utsk. here, he says, in 1889 were
25 some young men and girls who were
75 to be deported farther northward.
:,,1 '['here were schoolgirls amongst. then*
eye) under sixteen years of age.
00 The vice-gosentor had given or -
00 dens that these exiles were to be
50 deported without delay, and a guard
3 n0 told there to betake themselves to
4 25 the police. Fearing that they were.
3 GO 10 be sent to a living tomb with -
2 75 out C for protest they refused to
obey t he order. •
The vice -governor thereupon sent a
troop of soldiers to felth the exiles,
and n frightful scene began that
even shamed savege Russia. The
soldiers clubbed the young Hien and
girls with tho butts of their rifles,
stabbed theist with bayon'•t8, find
shot theist down unmercifully.
Six corpses were left on Iho
ground, and the (lying and maimed,
nun►bering twenty-seven, were thrust.
into prison. A few days !atthe
imprisoned exiles were trit.•ti by
court-martial. Three were condenur
ted to peen] servitude for life.
The prisons through Siberia aro
of it dreadful character. 'They aro
overcrowded with exiles. and the
' atmosphere in consequence, aid
through luck of ventilation. becomes
SO foul t hat the women ars seine -
times attacked by ft►i.,tleg tw,► or
•three titres it tiny. The heels of rho
exiles absoluteiv swarm with vermin
and no atten,j t is ever trade to fid
them of the pest.
The treatmentmeted out to Wo-
men 4'1 n'. lets is brutnl in the ex-
t reale, and it makes one's blood run
'cold to think that human brings
should be at the mercy of the severe
soldiers in the employ of the Tsnr.
While lee) I1•ntaeh was at Yakutsk
n woman, by name Nadve.h,lt
d.e, was flogln•d to death. She was
nlleired to have assaulted the cont-
! mandant, and the flov,•rnnr-General
ordered that she shunld be anhjorfeil
1 to corporal punishment. Sigldn eo5
therefore, flogged. dying after the
Inst blow had fallen upon the Mat l.-
1 Such are the horrors and sufferings
thnt have to be endured by the
wretched tn0rtnls in the livit,g tombs
of Siberia.
on the stage as Yorick's skull in
"Hamlet"; and another humorous
testator desired that his skin should
be converted into drumheads• on
which an accompaniment should be
beaten on Bunker's Hill every 17th
of .lune, to the inspiring strains of
"Yankee Doodle."
At Wimborne may be sten one of
tho most remarkable tombs in the
world. It is of slate, covered with
armorial bearings, and rests under a
low arch in a wall of Wimborno
Minster. It is the tomb of ono An-
thony Ettericke,
A ON('E FAMOUS LAWYER,
who left directions that his body
should be laid on consecrated
ground, but neither in the church
nor out of it, and neither above nor
under the ground. 'These puzzling
conditions have been exactly fulfill-
ed, for half of the tomb lies inside
the church and hal( outside its wails
while it is just half embedded in the
earth.
A leaden coffin containing the in -
mains of a Hertfordshire farmer
used to rest, among the rafters of
an old been at Stevenage; and it re-
mained for thirty years in this odd
position, in accordance with the
farmer's solemn injunction to his
heirs.
An equally strange resting -place
was that chosen l)y a Northampton-
shire clergyman who died late in the
eighteenth century and directed that
his body, Ove days afl4 death,
should bo carried to a favorite sum-
mer -house in the garden and there
placed on a bed he had been in tho
habit of sleeping in. The door and
windows of the summer -house were
to be securely fastened. and tho
house was to be fenced and planted
around with evergreens. "And for
the due performance of this, in man-
ner aforesaid," his will concludes,
"and for keeping the building ever
the sane, with the evergreen plants
and roils in proper and decent re-
pair, 1 give to my nephew. Thomas
Freeman, the moot' of Whitton,"
etc. Baskerville, a famous eigh-
teenth -century printer, was, by his
own wish,
BUI(1i•:D UNDEi( A WiNI)M111,1.,
close to his garden; and Thomas
Hollis, a Dorsetshire landowner, or-
dered that his body should be buried
10 feet deep in one of his fields, and
that the field should iuuucdlately he
ploughed in order to remove any
trace of his last resting-pince.
An eccentric old gentleman in
Iluckinghamshire. Mr. ilackhnns •,
spent his last days in superintending
the erection of his own tomb, which
took the form of a small pyramid
on an eminence in the " Idle of a
thick %t•n al near his house. "l'il
Speaking at n meeting of the I'ro- have nothing to do," he used to
tot in branch of the .lmalgnmatod say, "with tho church or church -
Society of Engins't•s recently , (fen- yard. Bury nie there in my own
erul Louis Botha, the hoer leader, wood on the hill and my sword with
me, and 1'11 defy all the evil spirits
in existence to injure me." Sir
W'illinn► Temple, a statesman of the
latter part of the seventeenth con -
strongly advocated the union of all
the white people in South Africa.
tie said that In the past of South
Africa thousands had offerer) up
their lives in dying for their c•u,n- fury' gave orders that his heart
try. Gert) bee thanked that day was 8110111(1 1►e huurled, ua a salvor box or
passed and South Africa to -day was chitin basin, "under nsun-dint in
one of the most promising colonies 01 nay garden, over against a win(1',W
from whence 1 used to contemplate uI.:'rI'IN(i A'1' '1'111: FAt•TS. nation.
the British Empire. The latest weapon Is the Humbert
They must show the il•itish Gov- and n,lmire the works of God niter!. The census -taker rnl'pc l at the gun, a Drench invention. if. makes
errttnent that they were a people had retired from worldly business." door of the little fat nil omse ani no flash or noise, an,l is warranted
- — -- opened his long Look. ,t plump girl not to recall; whilst discharge
VA1.1'413i.1' BEETLES.BEETLES.of about, eighteen enure to the door, projectiles, each of whichIt fantaln3s
and blinked nt him stupidly. 2:,0 shut, nt the rate of 1,200 an
In Central America 1 he most re- ••11.w many people 1110 here?" h.' hnnr. Four miles from this gun a
markable gold beetles' in the world began. regiment of 1,000 wooden Hien was
are found. The head -and wing -cases "Nobody lives here. 11e aro only stational. 'rho gun shot at the
are brilliantly polished with n lustre staying through the hop s, nson." dummies for a minute, and almost
as of gold itself. '1'o sight. anti "flaw many of your are there here'" every notelet) mon tuns found to bo
touch they have all the seeming el "I'm here. Father's in the woe!- hit.
metal. Otllly enough, another sp'r. Plied, Mil Hill is--" ♦ 1',>!' n 3:.'i.. all.,
les from the sante region has the filo "Sere here, my girl, 1 %tont to kn.,w � ..`utt•, ir1 o -dor to subtract." ex• ,• ,
p'•arnnce of tieing wrought in solid ha%: many inmates there are in tins ie in e.uur.• cr
silver, freshly burnished. 'i'h:•se gold twine. II'�t si..ny insole slel.t here Innthonintiteethtt "things the dn.;: in ;,a-u,•n,m.i
• I is f•..
the truth of the man's story. It is
pointed out that in 1874 a commis-
sion was specially appointed to find
out all the survivors of the gloat thin. 7c to Sc; ducks, 8c, all live
battle in order to increase their pen- weights.
sions. This, through district conn- Baled Hay—Car lots on track hero.
mends, and reliable local agencies, $7.50 per ton for Nu. 1 timothy and
traced, and forested a record of $O for No. 2.
therm. Among others who then camp Baled Straw—Quiet and easy in
forwl►rd was doubtless the youngest torte at $5.50 (o $(3 per ton for car
participant in tho hostilities, who lots on track' here.
was a drummer boy and ten years of
age in 1815, but he did not live long
afterwards to enjoy the enhanced al-
lowance which was accorded to hien.
A SURVIVOR IN CANADA.
It is believed that the veteran of
Waterloo, the lust with a record be-
yond
o-yond the shadow of a doubt, died in
the Itoyal Hospital during 1891. At
the sante time, it is admitted that
men might have fought In that bat-
tle who did not take the trouble to
contpleto their records for many
years after the Nnpoleonic wars. The
year 1991 also saw the death of
General Whichcote, who as a lieuten-
ant had command of a company of lime and grades was more or less
the old 2nd regiment, which baro good, aril everything was sold at
n great part in the day's victory. prices about steady with those al -
Afterwards he was on guard during ready quoted.
tho dismantling of the Louvre. 111 Export cattle,
choice ... ... 14
do good to medium 4
(to others
Bulls ...... 13
Cows :3
Butchers' picked .. 4
good to choice a
fair to good ..
do common ... 2
do cows 2
2
the various obituaries of this (Inc old
soldier, it wtis said that he was one
of the lust survivors of Waterloo.
This brought forward some very in-
teresting data ns to the few others
who had outlived hien. 'These in-
cluded Col. Hewitt, long a respected
resident of Southampton, and two
ensigns of the German Legion were
then alive. A little later cane in-
telligence front Canada that Lieut.
Maurice Shea. who was rewarded Bulls .....
with a commission from the ranks Feeders
for his great valor, was living in do medium
Quebec, and, spite of M+ 00 years of do hulls
age, took part in the celebration of
June 15th. 'There was also living at
Melbourne at that time Jeremiah
Bro::ne, who had fought at Waterloo
as a trooper of the inniskilling Dra-
goons. But these were nearly cen-
tenarians fourteen years ago, and
whenever during the last decade any
claim has been made on behalf of a
Waterloo survivor, careful inquiries
have invariably failed to establish it.
♦J
A GOOD EXCUSE.
A good story is related Of a jury-
man who outwitted a Judge, and
that without telling nn untruth. ile
ran breathlessly into the court:
"011, my lord, if you can excuse me
pray do. 1 don't I.nuw which will
die first—try wife or my daughter."
"Dear Inc. that's sail." said the
innocent .fudge. "Certainly, you
are excused."
'i'he next day the juryman was stet
by one of his fellow -jurors, who in a
sympathetic voice asked:
"flow's your wife?'•
"She's all right. Why do you
ask•?"
"And vnur daughter?"
40 to 84
10 4
90 4
75 4
011 :3
111 1
711 4
30 3
00 3
50 .') 3
3 00
.... 3 3(1
'2 50
Stockers. good :3 30 4 00
do rough to tom2 50 3 00
ihdls 1 75 2 59
Milch cows, each ....:h) 00 50 00
Export ewes. cwt. .. 4 1N) 4 20
do bucks, per cwt. 3 Of) :1 50
do culls. each 3 tut 1 00
( 51) 5 50
fel
Spring lambs
Calves, per lb.
do each 2 04) 10 00
Hogs. selects, cwt. 1: 1':.1
do heavies ...... 5 871
du lights :, •37:,
DEADLY FRENCH GUN.
Discharges Projectiles at the Rate
of 1,200 an Hour.
War has been robbed of much o1
its romantic side, and iu these drays
when (fe'•tth-den11ng machines reign
supreme men who go to war need
tei 1,c mere courageous than t hose
who foughtin the Clays of old, when
enemies faced on• another in th,•
open. The naval roan has more
ground for fearing t he hidden dan-
gers than those afloat which 1111.4.
tho eye. Sub -amarine boats and
"She's all right. too. Why dumines and torpedoes are calculated
you ask?" to test the nerves of the most emir -
"Why, yesterday you told the
.fudge that you 010 not know which
would Ole first."
"Nor do I. '!'hat is a 1 robh•m
that time alone 04111 salvo."
--0
aticous.
All the htgenulty ',f inventors of
warlike mttchi,,, s seems to be direct-
ed towards et Lotting a weapon which
not only tle.iis destruction in a
wholesale 1111111111.1% but With the
smallest chesee of disclosing its lo -
who merited the confidence of that
Government. They must get the dif-
ferent sections of the white races to-
gether and make a malted way for
themselves.
lie hoped they would all live to
the day when they would see a
happy South .Africa under one flog
and Government.
i151(i) ON It5Cltl•:LOR(S.
The halo Korean only nc(ptires the
dignity of manhood by i►ecomling a
Ilenedtct. Until then he is not even
entitled to wear n hat. The Korean
boy, therefore, being anxious to be
considered n man, mmrries early In
life, sometimes nt the age of twelve.
Once married he takes precedence of
nil hnr!telors, even rho';gh they be
grey-haired filen.
0::1:-1'll?('i•; 11 t II',%AV 11'lj1:vT .
:1 protees for Inakieg a 0I1 1 ce
stud rai?`ttv tt•hts•1 bus 1 o n (ft'. (sill.
el an ingot at out 111
is toe 1. and with
end 1•-'irsnlie press
red t.•1 ' 1h.• Tali a• el
•: r • hr•,u .! t to ; r c' ir.,lly the
.,,I . i., !, is !?,,.'l •.,,,.•'t cl t'►
i'' •t 14
rind silver beetle:; hove n at:nrket
value. They are w,:rth from S25 to
$50 each.
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"flow happy the 11.:bm•r-• ,niests
look this evening 1! t:tu'.t he their
tvedelitig anniversary " "\a; (110)'1,'
gut their old cook buck."
lost ntt 1 t
to CIAO,. Brea+ f" t m
rind y .!e Int 1"1".c.• t , tau Int take the
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ani 7.it;Lt tun);toil's Dom (line coves?" j wheel to its i.u..l s 11; e.
"No' •d•' sl'•!•t I:. r , sir. i had tee ways he n; the sane 1 , „ni' it , 1 ,,.
• .al•:'l'4 f1'011 for'r peers. nor